#html gurus! Do you know how html can access specific elements of a #spreadsheet file please? Ideally #ods for interoperability, but #xls if I must. Thankyou

#webdev #help

@MattMoose
It can't. You need some stuff in php, python, etc to do that.

@jamesb thanks. I really want to completely separate content (text & links) from style (html and CSS). I want placeholders in the html file to display specific bits from, say, a separate text/CSV file.

This quest is proving more trouble than it's worth, so I'll stick to bashing the html file around in an editor for now. But it's a direction. Cheers

@MattMoose
I'm going to assume you've come across Markdown?
@jamesb yes I've used markdown. What are you thinking?
@MattMoose
Not thinking anything, I just consider it an excellent way to separate content from style. You can use pandoc to convert it to anything.
Thanks bud I'll give it some thought. A bit more WYSIWYG than endlessly monkeying with raw html would be an advantage. But I'm trying to avoid CMS and databases for now ... Cheers